Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds?

Fossil evidence from the Denver Basin indicates a significant fungal bloom after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

With the current technology, you have a good shot at being able to bring back an extinct animal or being able to create mor ...

Washington, March 21 (IANS) The last volcanic activity on the Red Planet ceased about 50 million years ago — around the time when our planet’s plant and animal species, including dinosaurs, went ...

Around 250 million years ago, crocodiles and their archosaur relatives faced a significant extinction event. Their survival ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird. (CREDIT: Andrey Atuchin) A fossilized dinosaur dropping from ...

UW prof Anton Wroblewski studied more than 6,500 fossil fragments from the 66-million-year-old Ferris Formation in Carbon ...

Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, finds a new study led by UCL ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...